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Score: 86/100

What they say:

Opens sweetly on the nose, superbly vanilla’d, carrying a creamy custard character with toffee. Still sweet on the palate, now with spicy honey & butterscotch, running to more vanilla. The finish is very moreish, replicating the nose and palate, now with candied orange. (J)

What I say:

Our second dram during our visit to the Douglas Laing & Co Ltd. HQ was this 20 year old Girvan single grain from the Clan Denny range

Colour:

Amber gold

Nose:

Toffee, vanilla fudge, cereal, malt and oak wood

Taste:

Finish:

Medium/long sweet toffee oak

Overall:

A delicious single grain, full of ex-bourbon cask characteristics and old enough to have eroded the ‘chemical / rubbing alcohol’ nature of the grain spirit away. Easily as good as many single malt whiskies we have sampled. There are some deep and dark oak wood characteristics in here which we know and love!